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  Washington DC (UPI) Feb 8, 2021 A new era of Mars exploration will begin Monday with the expected arrival of the United Arab Emirates' Hope spacecraft in the vicinity of the Red Planet - the first of three such arrivals planned for February. The UAE probe will near Mars late Monday, and the mission will make a final, 27-minute orbital insertion burn, or correction, starting at 10:30 a.m. EST Tuesday. Hope's arrival is to be followed Wednesday by China's Tianwen-1 probe and NASA's Perseverance rover Feb 18. Tens ... read more |
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UAE on edge as 'Hope' probe poised to enter Mars orbitDubai (AFP) Feb 9, 2021 A tense half-hour on Tuesday will determine the fate of the UAE's "Hope" probe to Mars, as the Arab world's first space mission carries out a tricky manoeuvre to enter the Red Planet's orbit. ... more 
Perseverance in testing helps assure a safe landing on MarsEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 After a nearly seven-month journey to Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is slated to land at the Red Planet's Jezero Crater Feb.18, 2021, a rugged expanse chosen for its scientific research and sample ... more 
Where Should Future Astronauts Land on Mars? Follow the WaterPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 09, 2021 A new NASA paper provides the most detailed map to date of near-surface water ice on the Red Planet. So you want to build a Mars base. Where to start? Like any human settlement, it would be be ... more  
NASA's OSIRIS-REx to Fly a Farewell Tour of BennuTucson AZ (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 On April 7, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will give asteroid Bennu one last glance before saying farewell. Before departing for Earth on May 10, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will perform a final flyby of B ... more |
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Water ice resources identified in Martian northern hemisphereTucson AZ (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 Areas featuring subsurface frozen water ice that could benefit future human explorers have been identified in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars, a new paper led by Planetary Science Institute Senio ... more  
RUAG Space provides Solar Subsystem for planet hunter PLATOZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 The "planet-hunting" mission PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) of the European Space Agency (ESA) is a space-based observatory to find and study extrasolar planetary systems with ... more  
New fiber optic temperature sensing approach to keep fusion power plants runningBoston MA (SPX) Feb 05, 2021 The pursuit of fusion as a safe, carbon-free, always-on energy source has intensified in recent years, with a number of organizations pursuing aggressive timelines for technology demonstrations and ... more 
Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visitWashington (AFP) Feb 6, 2021 Discovering there's intelligent life beyond our planet could be the most transformative event in human history - but what if scientists decided to collectively ignore evidence suggesting it already happened? ... more 
Sarah al-Amiri: young minister behind UAE mission to MarsDubai (AFP) Feb 7, 2021 When Sarah al-Amiri was a child growing up in Abu Dhabi with a fascination for space, her young country seemed light years away from reaching for the stars. ... more |
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 China's space probe sends back its first image of Mars 
Tianwen 1 makes orbital correction as Mars arrival draws nearBeijing (XNA) Feb 08, 2021 China's Tianwen 1 Mars probe conducted its fourth orbital correction on Friday evening, as the spacecraft makes ready for its arrival in orbit around Feb 10, according to the China National Space Ad ... more  |
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Armstrong Assists with Orion for First Astronaut MissionEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Feb 05, 2021 As NASA's human spaceflight centers are busy preparing the Orion spacecraft and its components for the early Artemis missions around the Moon, a NASA aeronautics-focused center is lending a hand. ... more 
NASA Selects Firefly Aerospace for Artemis Commercial Moon Delivery in 2023Washington DC (SPX) Feb 05, 2021 NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, approximately $93.3 million to deliver a suite of 10 science investigations and technology demonstrations to the Moon in 2023. The delivery, ... more 
Bringing Mars rocks back to EarthTempe AZ (The Conversation) Feb 05, 2021 Jim Bell is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and has worked on a number of Mars missions. On Feb. 18, NASA's Mars 2020 mission will be arriving at ... more 
How Mars became the prize for the new space raceBirmingham UK (The Conversation) Feb 05, 2021 Looking at its achievements over the past decade, nobody would doubt China is aiming to win the new space race. Not only has it been the only country to land on the Moon in about 40 years, and the f ... more 
Could game theory help discover intelligent alien lifeManchester UK (SPX) Jan 31, 2021 New research from The University of Manchester suggests using a strategy linked to cooperative game playing known as 'game theory' in order to maximise the potential of finding intelligent alien lif ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 8, 2021 
A new era of Mars exploration will begin Monday with the expected arrival of the United Arab Emirates' Hope spacecraft in the vicinity of the Red Planet - the first of three such arrivals planned for February.
The UAE probe will near Mars late Monday, and the mission will make a final, 27-minute orbital insertion burn, or correction, starting at 10:30 a.m. EST Tuesday.
Hope's ar ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 09, 2021 
The lander and rover of the Chang'e 4 probe have resumed work for their 27th lunar day on the far side of the moon.
The Yutu 2 rover activated at 4:26 am on Saturday and the lander activated just over 12 hours later, the China National Space Administration's Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center said.
Yutu 2 has traveled about 628.5 meters on the far side of the moon. It is now ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 01, 2021  Among Jupiter's Galilean moons, icy Europa or volcanic Io often take the spotlight - but their sibling moon Ganymede has plenty of secrets to share. Powerful new millimeter observations have now provided insight into this complex satellite's surface.
The frozen, alien landscape of Ganymede contains a little of everything. Shadowy regions of ancient, battered dark terrain are cross-cut by n ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 
The "planet-hunting" mission PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) of the European Space Agency (ESA) is a space-based observatory to find and study extrasolar planetary systems with emphasis on the properties of terrestrial planets in the habitable zone around solar-like stars.
It is scheduled to launch in 2026. Mid-January RUAG Space, a leading supplier to the space indust ... more |
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 Harwell UK (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 
Lockheed Martin has contracted ABL Space Systems, of El Segundo, California, a developer of low-cost launch vehicles and launch systems for the small satellite industry, to supply a rocket and associated launch services for the company's first UK vertical satellite launch.
The project known as UK Pathfinder Launch is planned to be the first ever vertical small satellite launch from UK soil ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 01, 2021 
"Earnest and serious, considerate and meticulous, sound and reliable, and absolutely safe" is the motto of Guo Shiyu's father, the deputy chief engineer of an institution under China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
The principle was first brought up in 1964 by then-Premier Zhou Enlai to guide the country's scientific research on national defense. It's also the goal of Guo, an ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 
On April 7, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will give asteroid Bennu one last glance before saying farewell. Before departing for Earth on May 10, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will perform a final flyby of Bennu - capturing its last images of sample collection site Nightingale to look for transformations on Bennu's surface after the Oct. 20, 2020, sample collection event.
The OSIRIS-REx mission tea ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Feb 01, 2021  The Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate recently held its newest wargaming, modeling and simulation event at Kirtland Air Force Base.
The Directed Energy Utility Concept Experiment, or DEUCE, under the leadership of the directorate's wargaming team, brought together F-16 pilots, F-15E weapon systems officers and an Airborne Warning and Control System air battle manage ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 08, 2021 
China conducted a land-based, midcourse missile interception test on Thursday-the fifth land-based, anti-ballistic missile test the country has publicly announced.
The Defense Ministry said in a brief statement late on Thursday that the test had achieved its goals, and the operation was defensive in nature, not targeting any other country.
Before the latest operation, China had succe ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jan 22, 2021 
Rather like David versus Goliath, it appears that Saturn's tilt may in fact be caused by its moons. This is the conclusion of recent work carried out by scientists from the CNRS, Sorbonne University and the University of Pisa, which shows that the current tilt of Saturn's rotation axis is caused by the migration of its satellites, and especially by that of its largest moon, Titan.
Recent o ... more |
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 Providence RI (SPX) Jan 25, 2021  Metallurgists have all kinds of ways to make a chunk of metal harder. They can bend it, twist it, run it between two rollers or pound it with a hammer. These methods work by breaking up the metal's grain structure - the microscopic crystalline domains that form a bulk piece of metal. Smaller grains make for harder metals.
Now, a group of Brown University researchers has found a way to cust ... more |
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 Morgantown WV (SPX) Feb 05, 2021 
In data gathered and analyzed over 13 years, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) Physics Frontiers Center (PFC) has found an intriguing low-frequency signal that may be attributable to gravitational waves.
NANOGrav researchers - including a number from West Virginia University's (WVU's) Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Gravitati ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 05, 2021 
Researchers from the international BASE collaboration at CERN, Switzerland, which is led by the RIKEN Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, have discovered a new avenue to search for axions--a hypothetical particle that is one of the candidates of dark matter particles.
The group, which usually performs ultra-high precision measurements of the fundamental properties of trapped antimatter, has ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 3, 2021  Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence system that uses radio wave signals and a deep-learning neural network to remotely detect a subject's emotions.
The novel system - described in a new paper, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One - can identify heart rate and breathing patterns associated with anger, sadness, joy and pleasure.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 
DARPA's LongShot program, which is developing an air-launched unmanned air vehicle (UAV) with the ability to employ multiple air-to-air weapons, has awarded contracts to General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman for preliminary Phase I design work. The objective is to develop a novel UAV that can significantly extend engagement ranges, increase mission effectiveness, and reduce the ... more |
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